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Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange, sounds like they do not factor in it being a medicine.

For example, those with autism or schizophrenia have a faulty 'fatty acid binding protein 5' (fabp5)[1] which moves endocannabinoids to where they are needed[2]. Flooding the bloodstream with cannabis seems to help[3] by unlocking receptors that would normally be unlocked by endocannabinoids delivered by fabp5.

Obviously this is just one of many health benefits, such as muscle recovery[4] (who would even want that??? bloody addicts i tell ya!)

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240203

2. https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2018/03/013.html

3. https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/mornings/medicinal...

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369499



> Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange

Treating medicine and addictive substances as mutually exclusive categories is much stranger.


Imagine biting this same bullet for benzos and opioids.


There's no reason why it couldn't be both: helping some people while harming others, and perhaps having little effect at all on a third group.




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